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ROBERT E. n. non-n AND TALCOTTWILLIAMS, or PHILADELPHIA, rA.

" PRINTERSAGALLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,038, dated November 6, 1883.

Application filed March 24, 1883. (N0 model.)

- vented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Galleys, of which the following is a specification. l

The object of the invention is to facilitate the operation of placing the short sections of type, which have been set up by difierent compositors, in their proper relative positions in the galley, and also to avoid'the delay formerly incurred in marking up the galleys to correspond with the takes given out to the compositors. The invention consists in providinga printers galley of the. ordinary form with one or more seriesof numerals, or other designating characters, permanently imprinted either up on the floor of the same or upon the frame.

These characters serve in lieu of the chalk- I marks which have heretofore been employed for designating the particular parts of the gal- I by the oompositors.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 isa plan View of a galley embodying the features of our invention, and Fig. 2 illustrates the method of constructing the marking slugs which we prefer to employ in connection with our invention. I

Referring to the drawings, 5 represents the base or floor of the galley, which is preferably of brass. A frame, 0 d 6, extends about three sides of the floor in the usual manner. The

upper surface of each section of the frame is preferably covered by a narrow strip of brass,

although this construction is not essential.

The portion 0 of the frame is divided by grooves or indentations, f into equal parts, and.

in like manner divided into shorter sections 5 and numbered from the head'toward the leftthe numerals may be placed upon the floor of the galley in convenient series. a

At the head of the galley we have represented a'marking-slug, h, which is employed for indicating the particular article to which the galley is temporarily devoted. The slug h consists of a plate of metal of less height than the type, and bearing in this instance the letter A, which letter is employed for designating the galley to containthe first portion of. an article. Other similar slugs-such as shown in Fig. 2bearing the repeated characters A A and A A A, are employed in like manner for designating the second and third galleys devoted to an article requiring more than one galley. Other similar slugs bearing the characters B, C, 820., are employed for succeeding articles.

Inemploying our improvements the articles are lettered A, 13,0, 8m, in the usual manner; but-instead of marking the corresponding letters upon the galley with chalk, a marking slug, 72, corresponding with the. letter designating the article, is placed at the head of the galley. The articles are divided into takes in the usual manner and served out to the compositors. hen any compositor has finished his take, he brings the type set in accordance therewith, and places it within the particular galley containing the marking-slug which corresponds to the article to which his take belongs, and opposite the section bearing the same number as his take. sections or the other is employed, accordingly as the article has been divided into long or short takes.

It will be evident thus thatnot only is the necessity avoided of chalking up the several galleys according to the takes given out, but also the compositor can readily determine the particular galley and the precise part of the The one series of -=2 h I access galley in which his take should be placed,

series of equidistant grooves orindentations formed upon its frame, and numerals distin- I 5 guishing the successive spaces between the grooves or indentations.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto subscribed our names this 15th day of March, A. D. 1883.

R. n. A. DORE. TALOOTT WILLIAMS.

Witnesses: V

DANIEL LONG, JosEPi-r DE F. J'UNKIN. 

